A source said: “Celebrity Big Brother execs plan on having a lot of fun when they select their housemates for this season’s show. The more scandalous, the better.

“They want their stars to be as outspoken as possible, with relevant controversy attached to their name. They really want to create a buzz. Kieran would be an amazing signing and now he has nothing to lose.”

Katie — whose second husband, cross-dressing cage fighter Alex Reid, won CBB in 2010 — has already moved on from Kieran with a series of younger men.

Jamie is back on the box

FIFTY Shades star Jamie Dornan is making his first return to British TV since leaving to crack Hollywood.

The hunky actor, who played sex-mad tycoon Christian Grey in three of the racy movies, will appear in BBC2 drama Death and Nightingales.

It will be his first time back on the box since he starred on BBC2 in the last series of serial killer thriller The Fall opposite Gillian Anderson in 2016.

Since then, his blossoming movie career has also seen him make war film Anthropoid with Cillian Murphy and the forthcoming Robin Hood epic with Taron Egerton and Jamie Foxx.

But Death and Nightingales won’t be too much of a departure from his previous film roles as a dashing leading man.

The thriller, which is set in 19th-century Ireland and also stars Welsh actor Matthew Rhys, sees him play charmer Liam Ward.

Typecasting it may be, but it’s a nice problem to have.

BGT Marc - teary is again

AFTER moving the Britain’s Got Talent audience with his heartbreaking life story in the auditions, illusionist Marc Spelmann insists his semi-final piece on Wednesday night will pack the same punch.

He left host Ant McPartlin and judge Alesha Dixon tearful when he told how his wife Tessa was diagnosed with breast cancer while pregnant after years of IVF treatment. Then he revealed the happy ending – their two-year-old daughter.